skip

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A container for receiving, transporting, and dumping waste materials.
• intransitive verb To move by hopping on one foot and then the other.
• intransitive verb To leap lightly about.
• intransitive verb To bounce over or be deflected from a surface; skim or ricochet.
• intransitive verb To pass from point to point, omitting or disregarding what intervenes.
• intransitive verb To be promoted in school beyond the next regular class or grade.
• intransitive verb Informal To leave hastily; abscond.
• intransitive verb To misfire. Used of an engine.
• intransitive verb To leap or jump lightly over.
• intransitive verb To pass over without mentioning; omit.
• intransitive verb To miss or omit as one in a series.
• intransitive verb To cause to bounce lightly over a surface; skim.
• intransitive verb To be promoted beyond (the next grade or level).
• intransitive verb Informal To leave hastily.
• intransitive verb Informal To fail to attend.
• noun A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.
• noun An act of passing over something; an omission.
• noun A control mechanism on an audio or video player that interrupts the playing of a recording and advances or reverses to the beginning of the nearest chapter, track, or other division.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A leap; a spring; a bound.
• noun A passing over or disregarding; an omission; specifically, in music, a melodic progression from any tone to a tone more than one degree distant. Also called salto.
• noun That which is skipped; anything which is passed over or disregarded.
• noun In the games of bowls and curling, the player who acts as captain, leader, or director of a side or team, and who usually plays the last bowl or stone which his team has to play. Also called skipper.
• noun A college servant; a scout.
• noun In sugar-making, the amount or charge of syrup in the pans at one time.
• noun In mining, an iron box for raising ore, differing from the kibble in that it runs between guides, while the kibble hangs free. In metal-mines the name is sometimes given to the box when it has wheels and runs on rails.
• noun In poker, a straight in which the cards are alternate, such as 2, 4, 6, 8, 10: when played, it beats two pairs.
• To move suddenly or hastily (in a specified direction); go with a leap or spring; bound; dart.
• To take light, dancing steps; leap about, as in sport; jump lightly; caper; frisk; specifically, to skip the rope (see below).
• To make sudden changes with omissions; especially, to change about in an arbitrary manner: as, to skip about in one's reading.
• To pass without notice; make omission, as of certain passages in reading or writing: often followed by over.
• To take one's self off hurriedly; make off: as, he collected the money and skipped.
• In music, to pass or progress from any tone to a tone more than one degree distant from it.
• To leap over; cross with a skip or bound.
• To pass over without action or notice; disregard; pass by.
• To cause to skip or bound; specifically, to throw (a missile) so as to cause it to make a series of leaps along a surface.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A light leap or bound.
• noun The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
• noun (Mus.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
• noun [Slang.] a lackey; a footboy.
• noun (Zoöl.) See Bluefish, 1.
• noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. A basket. See skep.
• noun A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
• noun (Mining) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
• noun (Sugar Manuf.) A charge of sirup in the pans.
• noun A beehive; a skep.
• transitive verb To leap lightly over.
• transitive verb To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss.
• transitive verb colloq. To cause to skip.